Essays about: "indefinite article"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words indefinite article.

1. 1. Refugee or just Stateless? - A Study of International Refugee Law in relation to Stateless Persons and Socio-Economic Deprivation

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : Marija Pejic; [2019]
   Keywords : public international law; migration law; refugee law; statelessness; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Statelessness restricts the access of many rights, such as education and employment, which leads to many stateless persons finding themselves in socio-economic deprivation. The predicament of socio-economic deprivation can become so acute as to force people to cross international borders to seek protection elsewhere, for example as refugees. READ MORE

3. 2. Preposition and article usage in learner English : An investigation of negative transfer

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

   Author : Håkan Almerfors; [2018]
   Keywords : Error Analysis; article usage; preposition usage; negative transfer; corpus study; Swedish learners of English; Portuguese learners of English; felanalys; artikelanvändning; prepositionsanvändning; negativ språköverföring; korpusundersökning; svenska elever som studerar engelska; portugisiska elever som studerarar engelska;

   Abstract : The ways in which someone’s first language (L1) influences his or her second language (L2) to create errors, that is negative transfer, is a topic that has received much attention in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Previous research has suggested that negative transfer is responsible for many errors. READ MORE

4. 3. “I never thought about those rules in all my languages” : A comparative study of teaching the English articles in the multilingual classroom from a monolingual or a multilingual approach

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Zhiyin Zhang; [2018]
   Keywords : Second Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics; Language repertoire; Legitimate Language; the English article system; definite article; indefinite article; zero article;

   Abstract : This study is conducted to compare the effect of practicing a multilingual approach to a monolingual approach in teaching the English article system for students with multilingual backgrounds. Through a structured experiment in light of sociolinguistic and second language acquisition theories, two different discourses (complexes of signs and practices that organize social existence and social reproduction) structuring different legitimate languages are implemented in each respective approach. READ MORE

5. 4. A Linguistic Analysis of the Written Production of Second Language Learners : The Variation of Article Usage by Adult Chinese Learners of English

   University essay from Engelska

   Author : Junyu Wu; [2014]
   Keywords : second language acquisition; corpus linguistics; keyword analysis;

   Abstract : This study aims to test Robertson’s lexical transfer principle, which posits that Chinese learners use demonstratives (particularly this) and the numeral one as markers of definiteness and indefiniteness. This is tested by analysing Chinese learners’ written production collected from the Spoken and Written English Corpus of Chinese Learners 2. READ MORE

6. 5. Marking Definiteness in Farsi and English by Farsi Speaking EFL Learners

   University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation; Filosofiska fakulteten

   Author : Parichehr Afzali; [2012]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Differences in marking definiteness among various languages have been considered one of the most confusing areas for speakers of different languages. As a teacher of EFL to Farsi speakers, I have frequently noticed that the students face problems when it comes to marking a definite or indefinite noun in English. READ MORE